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Synopsis: A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr
Production: Warner Home Video
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
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Year:
1943
114 min
815 Views


I never understand why you need

so many evening dresses, Mellie.

Do you lead a secret life at your age?

[SCoFFS]

MELLIE:

Oh, hello, Marthe.

Hello, Mrs. Sewell.

I think Marthe is a very pretty girl,

don't you, Fanny?

What? Oh, all the Randolphs

were good-looking.

- No matter what else they weren't.

- I reckon men find her most attractive.

Don't you think so, Fanny? Don't you think

she is most attractive to men?

I'm sure I don't know. I'm not a man.

Of course, Jennie Randolph

wanted her to marry nobility.

It was a brilliant wedding.

Remember, Fanny, in Paris?

Now, doesn't it seem strange

that she's back here?

And the circle is completed, as they say,

right in your house and...

What circle? What are you talking about?

Candy. I'll buy messy candy.

That's what my grandchildren would like.

Messy candy.

If you'd had grandchildren, Mellie,

heaven forbid...

...they'd have been children who never ate

between meals, who were sickly.

All your family were sickly.

I think you've made up a good deal of it.

Licorice. That's what I'll buy.

MELLIE:
Really, Fanny,

you've wasted all afternoon for me.

Now it's too late to try on my dresses.

Oh, do be careful of the candy, Mellie.

Close up the box.

Acting like a 6-year-old

over Sara's homecoming.

It might be better if you spent your time

worrying a little about David.

It isn't that I believe everything that Cora

says, but she says everybody is talking.

Especially after he took her

to the colonel's dinner party. People said...

What are you chattering about?

You must get new upper teeth, Mellie.

Nobody can understand a word

you say anymore.

- You used to have lovely teeth.

- You can't understand me.

You can't even understand that all

Washington's talking about your son...

...and the Countess de Brancovis.

Everybody says it's serious too.

Not just, you know.

If it was just, you know,

people would gossip a little and then stop.

What is "just you know"? Mellie,

you're old enough to say what you mean.

Let me off at the next block.

I promised to fetch David.

Take these things home for me, darling,

and thanks for the car.

Do be careful of the packages, Mellie.

Don't let them bump around.

And be very careful when you take them out

and give them to Joseph himself.

Bye-bye, dear.

- Hello, Miss Drake.

- Hello, Mrs. Farrelly.

FANNY:

Come. Take me home.

I don't like that picture of your father.

It's not big enough. Get a bigger one.

Goodness, my Joshua was handsome.

Wasn't he?

C YRUS:

- Upon the warranties...

FANNY:
Hello, Cyrus. Hello, Miss Hall.

- Fanny.

Cyrus, my German son-in-law

is coming tomorrow. He's an engineer.

The government or somebody

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse). Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time". In his obituary in The New York Times, he was described as "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction." Time magazine included Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His novels and stories also had a significant influence on films, including (but not limited to) the genres of private-eye/detective fiction, mystery thrillers and film-noir. more…

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